Overview | Guides
to the British Library's Italian-Swiss material | Bibliographical
resources for Italian-Swiss studies | Italian-Swiss
Internet Resources
French-Swiss
material in the British Library
German-Swiss
material in the British Library
Overview of the Collections
The Italian section is also responsible for acquiring material
published in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino and material
published in Romansch (the fourth official language of Switzerland).
The Library's holdings in both are impressive, thanks to an acquisitions
policy maintained since the nineteenth century, and probably represent
the most significant such collections outside Switzerland itself,
providing a rich resource for historical and linguistic research.
There is a large collection of early Bibles and other religious
works in Romansch and the Library has continued to purchase local
publications, including on occasion translations of classic English
literary texts for their linguistic interest. The publications of
the principal organization promoting the use and study of Romansch
as a minority language, the Lia Rumantscha, can also be found here.
The Library's collections of Ticinese publications include a large
part of the production of the two main publishing houses in the
region (Casagrande and Dadò), covering the main research disciplines,
smaller firms publishing modern fiction and poetry, and more local
publications, with an emphasis on local history and customs. There
are also good holdings of art catalogues mainly from the galleries
of Lugano and Bellinzona (especially of the work of Ticinese artists)
and of important official publications.
Guides to the British Library's Italian-Swiss
material
Switzerland 700 Peter Barber and curators of the British Library
and the British Museum. London: The British Library, 1991.
The catalogue of an exhibition held in 1991 which gives an overview
of items relating to Switzerland both in the British Library and
in the Department
of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Bibliographical resources for Italian-Swiss
studies
Current Ticinese publications
as well as books on Ticino published elsewhere together with
publications in Romansch are listed in the Swiss national bibliography:
Das Schweizer Buch / Le Livre suisse / Il Libro svizzero.
Bimonthly.
|
| Zürich: Schweizerischer Buchhändler-
und Verleger-Verband, 1901- |
HLR 015.494
|
 |
Two important retrospective
bibliographies for Ticino are:
C. Caldelari, Bibliografia ticinese dell'Ottocento.
2 vol. |
| Bellinzona: Casagrande, 1997 |
YA.2000.b.2390
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|
| Edizioni ticinesi nel Convento
dei Cappuccini a Lugano, 1747-1900. |
| Lugano: Edizioni Padri Cappuccini, 1961 |
YA.1993.b.8196
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|
The following two Ticinese
periodicals are also useful bibliographical sources for publications
on the region:
Archivio storico ticinese. |
| Bellinzona, 1960- |
PP.8004.gz
|
|
| Fogli: informazioni dell'Associazione
Biblioteca Salita dei Frati, Lugano. |
| Lugano, 1981- |
ZA.9.a.5723
|
Italian-Swiss Internet Resources
Gateways | Libraries
and archives | Italian-Swiss publishers
and booksellers | Newspapers |Politics,
administration and education | Travel and
tourism
Gateways
InformaTI: la guida
di Tinet al Ticino e alla rete
[Paginas
rumantschas] For organisations, publications, etc. concerned
with Romansch
Libraries and archives
Bibliothèque
Nationale Suisse
LibroCittà
Italian-Swiss publishers and booksellers
Edizioni
Casagrande, Lugano
Armando Dadò,
Locarno
Associazione dei
Librai della Svizzera Italiana
Newspapers
Corriere del Ticino
LaRegioneTicino
Giornale del Popolo
Ticino7: settimanale
della Svizzera Italiana
Ticinonline
Punts (monthly
magazine in Romansch and English)
Politics, administration and education
Repubblica e Cantone
Ticino
Higher education
and research in Ticino
Università
della Svizzera Italiana
Banca Svizzera
Italiana
Travel and tourism
Ticino
